Sentences with phrase «pluralist societies»

Pluralist societies tend to view persons as individuated selves with rights and duties, who may form or leave independent political, social, business or religious associations; but socialist societies incorporate the self into an organic whole that guides each self and controls independent groups and associations.

The question may be academic, as we live in pluralist societies, and governments and nations are rarely able to act purely on christian ethics.

The Assembly planners would have benefited from pondering the wisdom of that great ecumenist and former WCC Mission Director, Lesslie Newbigin, whose recent work, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, challenges both the complacency of conservatism and the constant effort to reconstruct the gospel:

This lack of an as it were «mobile» clergy may well be damaging for the living presence of the Church in a pluralist society, for such a clergy might be aware of new tasks, and make use of special gifts and contacts due to their former professional and general experience.

But in a pluralist society of general education and at a time when the community Church of faith is bound to come, we should surely consider whether the spiritual tactics of the people's Church are still viable, and if the «shortage of priests» does not partly stem from this.

[6] Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Geneva: WCC Publications, 1989, rep. 1994), 117.

In the late eighties the Indian Theological Association explored the pattern of the church in a secular mode as herald of the Kingdom and servant of the world in a pluralist society like India.

In our pluralist society many find interfaith relations and action (food pantries, work for housing, youth programs, etc.) more urgent and productive than interchurch relations.

A pluralist society must perforce strive to be neutral about many things that concern its divided citizens.

Well, they are ««democratic dispositions» necessary for productive and mutually respectful living in a diverse, robust, secular pluralist society.»

Why should they meekly accept a diverse secular pluralist society as is?

Christians living in an inevitably pluralist society have an obligation to acquaint themselves seriously, without giving in to syncretist tendencies — another symptom of the fragmentation of our time — with the presence of the Spirit in other faiths.

Communion and Liberation is not secretive, but like Opus Dei it targets young people and is obviously not at home in a pluralist society but intends to remake society to fit its ideals.

Brad Gregory, a biographer of Luther, argues that Luther inadvertently sparked a more pluralist society.

«We are a group of Conservatives who believe in a modern, fair, and inclusive politics, an open, aspirational and liberal economics, and a strong, just, and pluralist society.

Femi Kehinde, paid glowing tributes to late Chief Akintola whom he described as a Federalist in a pluralist society who had always requested the National Government to reflect all shades of opinion even whilst as the Editor of the Daily Service.

Commons Speaker John Bercow meanwhile said: «We are a pluralist society and if people think they are going to get their way by violence, threats and intimidation they will soon find themselves wrong.»

«It affirms that protection of religious freedom is and must continue to be central value in Canada's pluralist society.»

Not exact matches

That is easily observed for example in the period of transition from a feudal authoritative state and a society with a closed mental outlook, to a democratic, pluralist social order.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

First of all, the pluralist character of modem society.

The author looks at the pluralist character of modern society, the place of media within it, and the nature of the media.

Only a civil society so rooted is capable of sustaining pluralist democracy without imploding into chaos or sinking into the dictatorship of relativism.

His unqualified gratification «that the tax bill passed by Congress includes an excise tax on investment income earned by super-sized university endowments» dangerously downplays the important role played by nongovernmental institutions in a pluralist civil society.

Egalitarianism is based on a pluralist theory of power exercised by individuals and competing organizations within society.

We are indeed exceptional that way, which is not to say better unless we harness our potential and fulfill our unique promise of being a multiracial, pluralist and liberal society.

We aim to raise our target groups» awareness of patterns of thought and behaviour that underlie racism and discrimination, and encourage them to make an active contribution to the promotion and maintenance of an open, pluralist, democratic society.

Our citizens came from every corner of the world and live in a pluralist, modernist, capitalist and democratic society.

«These constituencies could provide the pluralist checks and balances that alert the public to irresponsible exploitation of science that poses threats not just to the American «homeland» but to societies and peoples everywhere; to the environment, to peace, to human rights and to nature itself.»